Comparison Is Killing Your Progress
Comparison feels useful.
It looks like awareness. It can even feel like motivation.
But most of the time, comparison isn’t helping you measure progress — it’s pulling your attention away from the work.
Growth rarely stalls because you’re “behind.”
It stalls because your attention shifts outward instead of forward.
When you compare, the focus changes:
Instead of asking:
What am I working on?
What am I improving?
You start asking:
Where do I stand?
How do I rank?
Those questions create urgency — not clarity.
And urgency is a poor teacher.
You don’t need to win the comparison.
You need to return to the process.
The musicians who grow aren’t the ones who obsess over where they sit in the hierarchy.
They’re the ones who quietly build skill, day after day.
Attention is a limited resource.
Spend it on the work.